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5. In 1913, Baťa Shoes, the largest shoe manufacturer in the world, was started in the Czech Republic by Tomáš Baťa. They now have nearly 5,000 international retail locations and service over a million customers per day. If you want to visit the Baťa museum, however, you’ll have to go to Canada, as the founder emigrated there before World War II.

6.Until WWII, Czechs drove on the left side of the street, just as in Great Britain. When Hitler invaded in 1939 he changed it to the right side. After the war ended, the Czechs never bothered to change it back again. As a result, if you go to the National Technical Museum you’ll see several cars with steering wheels on the right-hand side.

7. In 1949, Ivana Trump (maiden name Zelníčková) was born in the industrial town of Zlín. As an alternate member of the Czechoslovakian Olympic ski team in 1968, she defected to America and went on to marry “The Donald” in 1977 – and to famously divorce him in 1992.

10. The Czech Republic boasts the largest per capita beer consumption in the world, at 132 liters (about 35 gallons) in 2010. That’s far more than the runner-up, Germany (107 liters), and almost twice that of the US (78 liters) and the UK (74 liters). The average Czech beer is usually served by the half-liter, so that works out to about 264 individual beers per person – and actually quite a bit more, since the overall figure includes a significant portion of the population who are too young to drink beer. Believe it or not, the annual consumption rate has dropped considerably since 2006, when Czechs consumed 163.5 liters (about 43 gallons) per person!